New on my blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/08/14/welsh-fire-gored-by-a-gaur/
An account of a bowling masterclass from the Manchester Originals women, spearheaded by Mahika Gaur, with a side note on the species of Asian wild cattle called the gaur. Also an image gallery containing both #photographs and #scans from today at work.
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Meredith bowls Baker and Originals are all out for 112, losing their last six wickets for nine runs. The margin is 25 runs.
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Five balls left and Originals need 26 to win, with the last pair together at the crease. They were 103-4 at the high water mark of the innings, and then lost five wickets for six runs.
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Noor Ahmad goes for a big hit and is brilliantly caught by Green in the deep to give Payne a third scalp. Originals 110-9 from 93 balls, need 28 off the last seven to win..
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Originals now in total freefall - Currie goes caught and bowled by Payne for 1 and it is 108-8, 30 needed from 10 balls.
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Tom Hartley goes, launching a ball from Payne high into the air, to be caught by Paul Walter. Originals 107-7 from 88 balls, need 31 from the last 12 balls.
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Gregory goes in more or less the same way as Buttler, and caught by the same fielder off the same bowler. Originals 108-6, need 30 from the last 15 balls.3
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That may well be game over for the Originals, Buttler taking on Green and holing out to Abell for 57 (34). They are 104-5, needing 34 more from 19 balls.
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Even with the boundary off the final ball that is epic stuff from Sonny Baker - ten balls bowled straight through at the start and he has 1-6. Fire 6-1 after 10 balls.
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